Quotes by Inability Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. Simon Schama inability shadow forever There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light. Simone Weil inability faults light ...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. Stephen King openness inability needs Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know. Steven Pinker inability perspective suffering Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things. Surya Das spirituality inability compassion Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose. Susan B. Anthony feminism inability mean There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. Thomas Carlyle inability infidelity honor Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security. Thomas Paine inability design government We must never shed tears That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it. Tite Kubo inability tears giving Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. Tony Judt inability alternatives people There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. Umberto Eco inability stupidity two There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth. Victor Pelevin inability philosophical language Disability is the inability to see ability. Vikas Khanna disability inability ability My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk. Vladimir Nabokov nuisance inability mind Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today. Wangari Maathai inability self-confidence apathy There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. Wei Wu Wei obvious inability mystery It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year. Warren Buffett inability decision years The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Wayne Dyer boredom inability use I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. William Faulkner inability fool advice Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately. Woody Harrelson inability greed thinking «12345678910»